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The spacewalk was the 212th in support of station assembly, maintenance and upgrades, the third in Artemyev\u2019s career and the first for Prokopyev. Artemyev was designated extravehicular crew member 1 (EV1) for the spacewalk, while Prokopyev was extravehicular crew member 2 (EV2).<\/p>\n
Ahead of the spacewalk, Russian crew members were able to re-install the EVA Helmet Interchangeable Portable (EHIP) Light that had separated from Orlan-MKS #5 during a dry run.<\/p>\n
A secure install was verified, however, the use of wire ties as an additional precaution was requested and later installed.<\/p>\n
They were also wearing GoPro cameras again *hours of footage acquired by the L2 Russian Section here and here*<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nFootage from GoPro raw video acquired in full via L2<\/p>\n
NASA astronauts Drew Feustel, Ricky Arnold and Serena Au\u00f1\u00f3n-Chancellor assisted the cosmonauts throughout Tuesday and reviewed their roles for the spacewalk.<\/p>\n
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Tasks on hand for the spacewalk included conducting panoramic photography of the project known as \u201cCosmos 360\u201d for Roscosmos, RKK Energia and TV channel \u201cR\u201d, likely part of Roscomos\u2019 continued outreach efforts with the Russian public.<\/p>\n
They also retrieved the space experiment \u201cEnvironment \u201c- which has been gathering data on microorganisms after it was placed outside on Zvezda a year ago. It is set to return to Earth on Soyuz. They also performed some sample collection tasks on the \u201cTest\u201d experiment located on DC-1 \u201cPirs\u201d and MRM-2 \u201cPo\u00efsk\u201d.<\/p>\n
A major task involved the installation of the \u201cIcarus\u201d (International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space) experiment on the external surface of the Zvezda Service Module.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nThe location for the Icarus payload \u2013 via DLR<\/p>\n
Icarus is a collaborative environmental experiment between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Roscosmos to study the migratory patterns of small animals on Earth. It consists of an antenna and GPS hardware to track the movements of animals that have been tagged with small GPS receivers.<\/p>\n
The experiment may provide data about how animals move from one location to another, how animal population density shifts over time, and how diseases spread.<\/p>\n
However, this task was troublesome and placed the spacewalk over 90 minutes behind schedule at one point.<\/p>\n
A regular exercise on a Russian EVA was the manual deployment of hardware, given Russian spacewalkers will often toss experiments and even used glove wipes into space, as opposed to bringing them back inside.<\/p>\n
However, during this EVA, the \u201ctossing\u201d was required, as four small satellites began their mission during the spacewalk.<\/p>\n
These four small technology satellites \u2013 \u201cTanyusha-SWSU-3 & 4\u201d and \u201cSiriussat-1 & 2\u2033, are part of the\u201dRadioskaf \u201d program.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nThe Tanyusha-YuZGU satellite \u2013 via Roscosmos<\/p>\n
The Tanyusha-YuZGU, also known as \u201cTanyusha-SWSU\u201d or \u201cRadioskaf RS\u201d, are small Russian experimental satellites that were developed at the Southwestern State University (SWSU, YuZGU), Kursk. The satellites include parts \u2013 mainly their baseline structure \u2013 that were constructed using a 3D printer.<\/p>\n
Siriussat-1 & 2 are is equipped with a space particle detector for studying \u201cspace weather\u201d. The sensor was developed by the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Moscow State University and was assembled with the participation of a group of schoolchildren from the Sirius Educational Center. Each satellite weighs about 1.3 kg.<\/p>\n
The next EVAs will be on the US side of the Station, with ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst Feustel and Arnold gearing up for two spacewalks at the end of September to replace batteries on the Port 4 truss structure\u2019s power channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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